lebanon
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "lebanon", 7-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "lebanon" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "lebanon" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
Lebanon is aEnglishname. It means: A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Lebanese Republic. Capital: Beirut. Also (especially formerly) known as "the Lebanon". Pronounced /ˈlɛbənən/. It ranks #7,021 in English word frequency. Often confused with Lennon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Lebanon |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | /ˈlɛbənən/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #7,021 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Lebanon is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlɛbənən/. Corpus data places it at rank #7,021 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 27 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Lebanon, with forms such as "elbanon", "lbeanon", and "leabnon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Lennon", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: The country's name comes from the name of the mountain range, which in turn comes from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”) (compare Hebrew לָבָן (lāḇān, “white”), Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”)). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Lebanon, spelled L-E-B-A-N-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A country in West Asia in the Middle East. Official name: Lebanese Republic. Capital: Beirut. Also (especially formerly) known as "the Lebanon".
- 2A mountain range in the country of Lebanon, West Asia; in full, Mount Lebanon.
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Etymology
The country's name comes from the name of the mountain range, which in turn comes from Biblical Hebrew לְבָנוֹן (ləḇānôn), from Proto-West Semitic *laban- (“white”) (compare Hebrew לָבָן (lāḇān, “white”), Arabic لَبَن (laban, “milk”)).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: elbanon,lbeanon,leabnon,lebanno,lebannon,lebanonn,lebaonn,lebbanon,lebnaon,llebanon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Lebanon
Misspelling Variants of "Lebanon"
Frequency rank: #7,021 in English
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